MASTERPLAN 2015 at IIM AHMEDABAD
Masterplan-2015 (www.iima-masterplan.in) is IIM Ahmedabad's Flagship Annual Business-Plan competition organized during Confluence 2015. This year Masterplan has seen participation from over 550 teams (250 start-ups, 300 college teams) from across India.
The overall event has 4 sub-competitions:
# Business Startups
# Social Startups
# Business Ideas
# Social Ideas
The preliminary rounds consisted of:
# 3 Tweets round: Participants had to explain their business plan, within the length of three tweets.
# Video round: Teams created videos of their business idea/ startup
# Business plan submission: Teams submitted their business plans for evaluation.
All rounds were evaluated by experienced investors, entrepreneurs and industry professionals. Teams, from the business plan stage onwards, were regularly mentored by venture capitalists and angel investors on possible improvements to their business plans. After rigorous evaluation, the final 20 teams have been selected (5 from each arena). 10 of these are running start-ups and the other 10 are start-up ideas at advanced stages. They will compete in the Grand Finale at IIM Ahmedabad on 28th and 29th November 2015.
The schedule for the two days is:
The Networking event will be conducted at Hyatt, Ahmedabad with all other events at the IIM Ahmedabad campus. The events will be attended by venture capitalists, angel investors, national finalists, IIM-A professors, CIIE experts and students.
Some prominent organisations who are part of Masterplan:
# Das Star Ventures
# Caspian Impact Investment Adviser
# Harmaan India
# Kae Capital
# India Angel Network
# India Internet Fund
# CIIE
We invite you to be part of this national event at the IIM Ahmedabad campus.
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